You could, if you wanted, load a model, and then load a different model, don't translate either hoping they are in the same reference system in whatever they were drawn in, and then look at the surfaces to ensure they are the same. This is a cheap way of comparing after, say, a rev up.
I'm not sure how PcDmis would know what the model is "supposed" to be versus what the model "is."
If I suspect a model is off, and I don't feel like playing with solidworks (I'm below average with it for manipulating and analyzing, but middling or better at creating a solid), all our mastercam licenses are used (I'm good manipulating and analyzing with it), I will sometimes load a model.
Translate that model where I want it (ABC usually), rotate as necessary and then click auto feature and select what I'm concerned with (usually a hole for me, so I auto cylinder).
Then I can see if my X, Y and Z match the print and if I, J and K are where I expect them.
With my customers (we don't do design, build to print only), many times, I find the model does not match the print.
Not sure of a way to automate that.
Since I have a solidworks license now, by the way, I wouldn't load two models into PcDmis either, Solidworks will compare two models.
Again though, it has no way to know if the either model is drawn correctly to validate anything. It can only say this is not the same as that.
You could, if you wanted, load a model, and then load a different model, don't translate either hoping they are in the same reference system in whatever they were drawn in, and then look at the surfaces to ensure they are the same. This is a cheap way of comparing after, say, a rev up.
I'm not sure how PcDmis would know what the model is "supposed" to be versus what the model "is."
If I suspect a model is off, and I don't feel like playing with solidworks (I'm below average with it for manipulating and analyzing, but middling or better at creating a solid), all our mastercam licenses are used (I'm good manipulating and analyzing with it), I will sometimes load a model.
Translate that model where I want it (ABC usually), rotate as necessary and then click auto feature and select what I'm concerned with (usually a hole for me, so I auto cylinder).
Then I can see if my X, Y and Z match the print and if I, J and K are where I expect them.
With my customers (we don't do design, build to print only), many times, I find the model does not match the print.
Not sure of a way to automate that.
Since I have a solidworks license now, by the way, I wouldn't load two models into PcDmis either, Solidworks will compare two models.
Again though, it has no way to know if the either model is drawn correctly to validate anything. It can only say this is not the same as that.
